Note:Although I respectfully
discuss the Talmud’s “Three Oaths” in the below email to Neturei
Karta, I do not regard the Talmud as the Word of God.Rather, the Talmud is a compilation of Jewish
wisdom, created over many centuries, reflecting the eras and circumstances
which the human authors thereof experienced.As such, no Talmudic declaration should ever be viewed as being
equivalent to -- let alone superior to -- the Directives and Prophecies
of the Hebrew Bible.In particular,
since the Talmud was written during a time when the Jewish people were
scattered among, and subject to the tyrannical rule of, Antisemitic
gentile empires, it naturally prioritizes the self-preservation of the
Jewish people in the Exile, which causes it to counsel passivity
in the face of persecution, the logical outcome of which was the
creation of the “Three Oaths”.However,
while the “Three Oaths” certainly represented common sense when the Talmud was
formulated and memorialized from the 1st - 6th Centuries
C.E., it was rendered a dangerous anachronism by the aggregation of
certain seminal events in the 20th Century C.E., including Great
Britain’s seizure of the Land of Israel from the Ottoman Empire during World
War I, the League of Nations’ issuance of its Mandate for Palestine (whose
explicit purpose was the reestablishment of a “Jewish National Home” in the
Land of Israel and whose implicit purpose was the creation of a sovereign
Jewish State therein), the Holocaust during World War II, and the United
Nations’ issuance of its Palestine Partition Plan (whose explicit purpose was
the creation of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel).Obviously and unfortunately, for the tiny Neturei Karta cult, the ancient rabbinic declaration known
as the “Three Oaths” supersedes even the Word and Will of God.Consequently, in the below email, I analyze
the “Three Oaths” in an attempt to demonstrate to Neturei
Karta (and, more importantly, to the many other Jews who regard the Talmud as
being divinely inspired) that the creation of modern Israel does not
violate the “Three Oaths”.

There is a Muslim website known as the Islamic News And
Information Network at www.inin.net which
has a link to an article entitled "The Islamic Ruling On The
Permissibility Of Martyrdom Operations" (http://www.inin.net/martyr.htm)
which, by using proofs from the Koran and other sources of the Sharia, extols
the murder of Jews through the use of suicide bombers. In order to prove that
hatred of, and jihad against, Jews residing in the modern State of Israel is
sanctioned also by the Torah and, consequently, by normative Judaism, this
Muslim website has a link to your anti-Zionist Jewish website. In other words,
the Muslims who thirst for Jewish blood are using the Neturei
Karta as the Nazis once used the Judenrat (a
Nazi-organized system of "Jew Councils" staffed by local Jews and
established for the purpose of liaising between the Nazis and the ghettoized
Jewish population pending their deportation to the death camps) -- namely, to
provide a Jewish veneer for the annihilation of the Jewish people. The doctrine
of PikuachNefesh (avoiding
danger to Jewish life) demands that you not permit your religious
beliefs to be used to endanger Jews -- even Zionist Jews.

Now for your religious beliefs. You posit that the
modern State of Israel was established in defiance of God's Will because
the Jewish people have not yet atoned for the sins which caused their expulsion
from the biblical Land
of Israel. It follows
from your beliefs that the God of Israel -- even now -- requires that
the Jewish people continue to remain under the domination of the nations of the
Exile until the advent of the Messiah.

Although your website does not offer any Halachic support for your beliefs,
you are almost certainly relying upon the “Three Oaths” described in the
Babylonian Talmud, namely, that (1) the Jewish people must not ascend from the
nations of the Exile to the Land of Israel, forcibly, en masse; (2) the Jewish
people must not rebel against the nations of the Exile; and (3) the nations of
the Exile must not overly persecute the Jewish people in their midst (Ketuvot 111a). However, in a messianic reference to
the future ingathering of the Jewish people to, and the resurrection of a
sovereign Jewish nation-state in, the Land of Israel,
the Midrash warns that if the gentile nations should overly persecute
the Jewish people in violation of the Three Oaths, then "they cause the
End of Days to come prematurely". (ShirHaShirimRabba, 2:7).

In other words, the Three Oaths constitute an interdependent
bilateral contract between the gentile nations and the Jewish people -- meaning
that, once the nations, including the Muslim countries, violated their
part of the Three Oaths with their expulsions, Crusades, Inquisitions, fatwas,
the farhoud (in Nazi-era Iraq), pogroms and, of
course, HaShoah (the Holocaust), the Jewish people
were thereby absolved of their part of the Three Oaths.Modern political Zionism and the modern State
of Israel arose -- by the Hand of God -- as a direct result of the breach by
the gentile nations of the Three Oaths.

And if you will, nevertheless, insist that the Three Oaths constitute an independent
bilateral contract between the gentile nations and the Jewish people -- meaning
that, despite the massive violations by the gentile nations of their
obligations thereunder, the Jewish people still remain bound by the
Three Oaths, then it is clear that the Jewish people have not violated
them. For, the ZionistState was established, not
against the declared will of the gentile nations, but rather with
their overt consent -- as orchestrated by the God of Israel -- through the
agency of their collective representative, the United Nations. In fact, Israel is the only country in the World
whose creation was endorsed by both the League of Nations (through its
Mandate for Palestine
issued July 24, 1922) and the United Nations (through U.N. General
Assembly Resolution no. 181 issued November 29, 1947, commonly known as the
Palestine Partition Plan). Moreover, after Israel's
War of Independence, the United Nations voluntarily admitted Israel as a
member state thereof (through U.N. General Assembly Resolution no. 273 (III)
issued May 11, 1949).

Moreover, although you believe and constantly declare that the establishment
and continued existence of the Zionist Entity is an abomination which
constitutes an enormous ChillulHaShem
(desecration of God's Name), it is nonetheless a fact that the State of Israel
not only hosts but alsoprovides financial aid to more
Torah institutions -- including those of the non-Zionist religious
movements -- than does any other nation on the face of the Earth. (Even Israel's tiny Neturei Karta movement is permitted to propagate its hellish
views unmolested by the Zionist government.) Consequently, do you really
believe that the explosive proliferation of Torah scholarship throughout the
State of Israel occurring over the past half century is the coincidental
byproduct of an enormous ChillulHaShem rather than the blessed outcome of a
long-prophesied Kiddush HaShem (sanctification of
God's Name)?

For, in response to the great ChillulHaShem created when the gentile nations have, with impunity
throughout History, continually massacred their Jewish citizenry, and in
fulfillment of Prophecy (see Deuteronomy 30:1-6; Isaiah 54:7; Ezekiel
36:18-35 & 39:28-29), God has resurrected the Jewish nation-state of Israel
within the borders of the biblical Land of Israel in our Time -- despite the
fact that the Jewish people have not yet repented for their biblical sins -- in
order to hasten the End of Days, during which He will punish the gentile
nations for their avodahzarah
(idolatry and other deviant worship), their arrogance and their age-old persecution
of the Jewish people (see Deuteronomy 32:43; Isaiah 45:14-23; Jeremiah 2:3;
Ezekiel 38:1 - 39:8; Zechariah 14:1-21; and Joel 4:1-2), to the end that both
they and the Jewish people will recognize and acknowledge His solitary Kingship
over the Universe. Thus, the establishment and continued existence of the
Zionist Entity constitutes, not ChillulHaShem, but rather Kiddush HaShem!

Especially revealing are the prophecies of the Prophet Zechariah concerning
the apocalyptic War of Gog and Magog, during which the gentile nations and
their Jewish allies will conspire to destroy Israel, but will, instead, be
decimated by God's Wrath. Zechariah prophesies about the War, as follows:

"I will gather all of the nations to Jerusalem
for the War; the City will be captured, the houses will be pillaged and the
women will be violated; half of the City will go out into exile, but the rest
of the people will not be eliminated from the City. HaShem
will go out and wage War with those nations, as He waged War on the Day of
Battle ... This will be the Plague with which HaShem
will strike all the peoples that have organized against Jerusalem: Each one's
flesh will melt away while he is standing on his feet, each one's eyes will
melt away in their sockets; and each one's tongue will melt away in their
mouths. It shall be on that Day that there will be a Great Panic of HaShem among them; each one will grab the hand of his
fellow, and his hand will be raised up against the hand of his fellow.Also [many among] Judah will wage war
against Jerusalem ..." (Zechariah 14:2-14).

The Prophet's latter reference is to those Jews, including the full spectrum
of anti-Zionist Jewry (especially a sect such as the Neturei
Karta which claims to be Torah-observant), who aid and abet Israel's
enemies during this messianic period.

[Note:The Neturei Karta is an evil cult whose rabid anti-Zionism
leads it to endorse, in essence, the annihilation of the 40% of
World Jewry that presently inhabits the State of Israel. Read on! -- Mark Rosenblit]

Neturei Karta pays solidarity
visit to Iran

By Michael Freund

(Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2006) A delegation from the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect is currently visiting Teheran to meet
with senior officials and express their support for Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and his calls to eliminate Israel.

In a statement to Iran's
official IRIB radio, the group called for "the disintegration of the
Zionist regime" and defended the Iranian president, saying that it
"is a dangerous deviation to pretend that the Iranian president is an
anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic personality."

They added that they were "upset about the recent ploys, propaganda and
tensions which have been created by the West regarding the statements of the
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about a World free of Zionism, since this
is nothing more than wishing for a better world dominated by peace and
calm."

On Sunday, members of the delegation, headed by Rabbi YisroelDovid Weiss, met with Iranian Vice-President Ahmad Moussavi, who also chairs the Iranian Committee in Support
of the Palestinian Revolution.

At the meeting, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA, Weiss "praised
the enlightening statements of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about the
Holocaust, and said the establishment of a Zionist government and occupation of
Palestine [i.e., the existence of Israel in
any portion of Mandatory Palestine] are contrary to the injunctions of
Judaism."

The doctrine of Neturei Karta says Jews cannot use
human force to establish a Jewish state before the coming of the universally
accepted messiah.

The group supports close ties with Arabs, particularly Palestinians, and
rejects Zionism.

Ahmadinejad has been widely condemned in the West for asserting that the
Holocaust is a myth.

This is not the first time that Neturei Karta has
come to the defense of the Iranian regime. On October 28 of last year, the
group issued a statement denying that Ahmadinejad was anti-Semitic after he
called for the State of Israel to be dismantled.

Neturei Karta's leader, Rabbi Moshe Hirsh, considers
himself a Palestinian Jew. The group has frequently participated in
pro-Palestinian activities, including a visit to the grave of Palestinian
Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Ramallah in November.

[Note: On October 26, 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, speaking at a government-sponsored conference held in Tehran
entitled “A World Without Zionism” uttered, in salient part, the following
statements: “The establishment of the
State of Israel
was an offensive move. The Islamic nation will not let its historic enemy live
in its midst. … Very soon, this stain of disgrace will vanish from the
center of the Islamic world; and this is attainable. … Our dear Imam [the late
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic
of Iran]
said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the Map, and this was a very
wise statement.”In December 2005,
in response to worldwide criticism of those earlier remarks, President Ahmadinijed reiterated -- this time more forcefully -- Iran’s determination to destroy Israel (as well as the United States),
declaring:"The annihilation of
the Zionist regime will come... Israel
must be wiped off the Map... Allah willing, with the force of Allah behind it,
we shall soon experience a World without the United States and Zionism." These are the statements and the sentiments
that the Neturei Karta finds so praiseworthy! -- and
this at a time when Iran is in the midst of developing nuclear weapons
in violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. -- Mark
Rosenblit]

[Note:In furtherance
of its goal to destroy modern Israel, the Neturei Karta
also tries to demonize and thereby delegitimize the State of Israel among the
nations by mendaciously and odiously claiming that the Jewish State’s very
creation was the Zionists’ calculated reward for facilitating the Holocaust.Read on! -- Mark Rosenblit]

UTJ [United Torah Judaism]: Anti-voting campaign hurt us

By Matthew Wagner

(Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2006) A color-print pamphlet distributed on the eve
of elections by the EdahHaredit
to convince ultra-Orthodox residents not to vote accuses the pre-state Zionist
leadership of purposely allowing haredi Jews to be
massacred by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

United Torah Judaism chairman Ya'acovLitzman admitted that the anti-vote campaign led by the EdahHaredit -- a group
representing haredim who resist any connection with
the Zionist state -- hurt his party.

According to the pamphlet, written by YoelShwartz, an American EdahHaredit activist, the Zionists maliciously refrained from
using money and other resources at their disposal to save Jews in order to
compound the atrocities of the Holocaust and to convince the world of the need
for a Jewish state.

"The Zionists had a saying that 'Only with blood shall we redeem our
Land,'" said Shmuel Popenheim, editor-in-chief
of Ha'edah, EdahHaredit's weekly mouthpiece. "What they meant was that
the blood of those massacred in the the Shoah
[Holocaust] would get them a State."

The EdahHaredit printed
the 16-page pamphlets and distributed 250,000 copies in Jerusalem,
BneiBrak, Ashdod, Netanya, Rehovot,
BetarIlit, Beit Shemesh and other cities with large haredi
neighborhoods.

The pamphlet, written in colloquial Hebrew, is a dialogue between a grandfather
and his young grandson. The old man uses the alleged despicable behavior of the
Zionists during the Holocaust to prove that any cooperation with them is
strictly prohibited.

In the days leading up to the elections the EdahHaredit campaigned aggressively against voting.
Nevertheless, UTJ, which is made up of two political parties, the larger
Hassidic AgudatYisrael
headed by Litzman and the Lithuanian DegelHatorah, managed to
increase its mandates from five to six.

Litzman said he was pleased with the results but
estimated that UTJ could have done better if not for the EdahHaredit. "The fact that there were people
actively fighting to prevent our constituents from voting definitely hurt us.
But I don't know how much."

Popenheim, a resident of Beit Shemesh,
said that in his city the EdahHaredit
was particularly successful.

"Even though about 1,700 new families moved there since the last
elections, UTJ grew by only about 120 votes compared to the previous
elections," he said.

[Note:The main
component of the EdahHaredit
organization is the Neturei Karta.Its blood libel that the Holocaust-era
Zionist leadership of Mandatory Palestine -- a non-sovereign territory which
then held less than 17% of World Jewry and which was then under an oppressive
British occupation -- could have prevented the Holocaust or, alternatively,
could have influenced the Nazis in their selection of Jewish victims is
simultaneously so evil and so ludicrous that its very utterance condemns its
authors to the Hell which they so richly deserve. -- Mark Rosenblit]

It was the first time envoys from the anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox sect have
visited the territory since Hamas seized control in June 2007.

The sect denounces Israel's
existence and traditionally embraces its enemies -- including Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom Neturei Karta members
famously hugged at a Holocaust denial conference in December 2006.

Four sect representatives from the US
sat down with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, after crossing
into the territory through Egypt
the night before with dozens of other pro-Palestinian activists. Israel, which maintains a strict blockade of Gaza, would not let them
cross through its passages with the territory.

"We feel your suffering, we cry your cry," said Rabbi Yisroel Weiss upon arriving Wednesday night. "It is
your land, it is occupied, illegitimately and unjustly by people who stole it,
kidnapped the name of Judaism and our identity," said Weiss, wearing the
black hat, black coat and long side-curls typical of ultra-Orthodox Jews. His
delegation left early Thursday.

Hamas seeks the destruction of the state of Israel and has killed more than 250
Israelis in suicide bombings. Israel,
along with the US
and European Union, considers Hamas a terrorist group.

During their Thursday meeting, Haniyeh told them he held no grudge against
Jews, but against the state of Israel,
according to a Hamas Web site.

Neturei Karta, Aramaic for "Guardians of the
City," was founded some 70 years ago in Jerusalem
by Jews who opposed the drive to establish the state of Israel,
believing only the Messiah could do that. Estimates of the group's size range
from a few hundred to a few thousand.

Representatives of the sect had previously visited Gaza when it was ruled by Fatah.

One acted as Yasser Arafat's adviser on Jewish affairs, and a delegation
traveled to Paris
in 2004 to pray for the Palestinian leader's health as he lay dying in a
hospital. Months later, a group participated in a conference in Lebanon with
Hamas and Hizbullah militants.

Members of the anti-Zionist group meet senior Hezbollah
official in Lebanon to support "Land Day" protests.

(Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2012) MK AryehEldad (National Union) called on Attorney General
Yehuda Weinstein on Monday to investigate members of the Neturei
Karta movement following reports that they met with senior [terrorist
organization] Hezbollah officials in Beirut.

Eldad is seeking the prosecution
of any Israelis who took part.

A fringe ultra-Orthodox sect established in Jerusalem in
1938, Neturei Karta (Aramaic for “Guardians of the
City”) believes Israel can be reestablished only after the coming of the
Messiah. The group therefore rejects Zionism and opposes the existence of the
State of Israel.

The Arabic-language pro-Hezbollah radio station al-Nour (the Light) reported on Monday that senior Hezbollah
official Sheikh Nabil al-Kauk received a delegation
from Neturei Karta in the Lebanese capital.

American Neturei Karta leader YisroelDovid Weiss met with al-Kauk, the Hezbollah official in charge of southern Lebanon,
as part of his group’s participation in Friday’s [Arab and Muslim] Global March
to Jerusalem, al-Nour said.

The pro-Hezbollah station reported that Weiss used the visit
to call for the “demise of the so-called State of Israel” and said Jewish
identity had been ‘stolen by the global Zionists.”

According to al-Nour, Kauk called Weiss’s visit a “slap in the face for the
Zionist apartheid entity in Israel” and called on Neturei
Karta to “expose the usurping entity’s anti-Jewish, anti-Islam and
anti-Christian [stance].”

Hezbollah said that AtallahHamoud, deputy chief of its Palestinian department, had
also been present during Weiss’s visit.

The terror group said in a statement that Weiss
congratulated Hezbollah on its “resistance” to Israel.

According to Hezbollah, Weiss said the Jews had been
“expelled from the Land of Israel because of their sins” and added that “no
Israeli state should be established before the advent of the Messiah, and the
Palestinian nation is fully entitled to establish a state on its own soil.”

Neturei Karta’s participation in
Friday’s Global March is still being widely reported in the Arabic press,
particularly in Jordan and Lebanon, with several news outlets featuring videos
of the rabbis at the event.

On Sunday, the Lebanese newspaper as-Safir
published a lengthy interview conducted in Beirut’s Golden Plaza Hotel with six
Neturei Karta rabbis, citing the movement as saying
Israel was “Zionist and not Jewish” and that Jews should live in exile,
including in a Palestinian state.

The rabbis told the paper that “Israel is doomed to
extinction” and that their participation in the Global March had been a
“message to the Arab world and the Palestinian people.”

In the past, Weiss has given interviews to Iran’s
state-owned news agency IRNA in which he expressed his desire for Israel’s
demise.

Anti-Zionist haredi who attempted to spy for Iran to serve
4.5 years in plea deal

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST.COM
STAFF

Yitzhak Bergil, from Naturei Karta sect, admits to offering Iranian embassy in
Berlin intel on Israel; Shin Bet: Confessed to acting
out of "hatred," in exchange for money.

(Jerusalem Post, January 28, 2014) A man from the
anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Natorei Karta sect who
was charged with attempting to pass sensitive information about Israel to Iran
in August will serve four-and-a-half years in prison, according to the terms of
a plea bargain approved by the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday.

Yitzhak Bergil, 47, who was arrested by the Shin Bet and Israel
Police in July, reached the plea deal with the State Attorney's Office after
confessing to the charges against him.

The Jerusalem State
Attorney’s Office filed the indictment in August with the district court on
charges of intent to commit treason and contacting a foreign agent.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that the classification of
spying for which Bergil was charged is consideredrelatively
low on the spectrum. The sentence of four-and-a-half years was equal to, or
more severe than the punishment meted out for similar offenses in the past.

At an unknown date, Bergil decided to make contact with the Iranian government
in order to collect intelligence on Israel and send it to them, the indictment
alleges.

To do this, he went
online to check where he could approach an Iranian embassy, said the
indictment.

On January 16, 2011,
he flew to Berlin, and two days later approached the embassy there to tell the
Iranians that he was an Israeli and wanted to speak to them. At the time he was
clothed in his regular haredi dress, including black
and white clothes, and tzizit ritual fringes.

He was brought to
Iranian representatives, including a man who introduced himself as Hagi Baba and two others, said the
indictment.

He told Baba that he
was against the Jewish state, wanted the state to be taken over by non-Jews,
was ready to provide them intelligence and was even ready to “kill a Zionist,”
if necessary, according to the indictment.

He baited the
Iranians, asking them why they continued to fail to prevent sabotage and
attacks by Israel within the Islamic Republic, said the indictment.

The Iranians
responded with annoyance, noted the indictment, saying that he should be
embarrassed to insult them when he was seeking asylum.

Bergil
retorted that he was not seeking asylum, but wanted to help with spying, said
the indictment.

He returned to Israel
on January 20, 2011.

He kept up his
connection with the Iranian officials by email, using Internet cafes, and via
telephone calls made from public phones near his place of residence in
Jerusalem, the Shin Bet and the indictment said.

The Shin Bet said
that under questioning, the man confessed that he worked “out of a hatred for the State of Israel and in exchange for financial
compensation.”

One place where he checked his email account for messages
from the Iranians was the Vital Hotel at 141 Jaffa Road in the capital, said
the indictment. Two spots where he used public telephone calls to contact the
Iranians were on Straus Street and KanfeiNesharim Street in the city.

A fringe
ultra-Orthodox sect established in Jerusalem in 1938, Natorei
Karta (Aramaic for “Guardians of the City”) believes Israel can be
reestablished only after the coming of the Messiah. The group therefore rejects
Zionism and opposes the existence of the state.

Members of the sect
in Israel and the US are known to burn the Israeli flag and have sent
representatives to attend conferences in Iran in the past.

Last year, Arabic
media reported that members of the sect met with Hezbollah officials in
Beirut.